Politics

Allan Ashbolts reports on the Returned Services Leagues influential role in politics. The story causes much controversy and RSL deputy president Sir Raymond Huish and other senior officers accuse Ashbolt of entrapment, giving false information and censoring them by unfair editing.

Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen faces pointed questions from reporter Paul Lyneham about his ownership of coal shares. Lyneham also provokes a fierce response from the mining company, Utah Development Corporation, by questioning its relationship with the Queensland government.

Reporter Chris Masters and producer Peter Manning begin as an investigation into how officials in NSW run the game of rugby league. But as they dig deeper they uncover allegations about perverting the course of justice.

Mary Delahunty's report looks at the misuse of Australian aid money in the Philippines. It shows the Philippines Government to be using the money to take back land from poor farmers and to build roads to boost its fight against the rebels.

A Four Corners team tries to rendezvous with a Community Aid Abroad team at Khartoum in the Sudan. However, aid from Australia was seized just as help for those starving in rebel-held areas of northern Ethiopia was banned, leaving thousands to starve.

Chris Masters' investigation into Queensland police corruption reaches all the way up to the Police Commissioner. A judicial inquiry is announced the day after broadcast. Over 100 convictions result from the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Commissioner is eventually jailed.

Reporter Marian Wilkinson and researcher Monica Attard present a compelling portrait of a political coup as their report exposes the planning behind the move to replace John Howard with Andrew Peacock.

Deborah Snow's report focuses on the uprising in Bougainville and features an interview with Papua New Guinea's Bougainville commander, Colonel Leo Nuia, admitting that helicopters provided by Australia had been used to dump rebels' bodies at sea.

When the East Timorese grabbed their independence and, with the help of Australian-led forces, withstood the murderous onslaught of Indonesia-backed militiamen, the world saluted their courage. Seven years on, the Australian soldiers are back, trying to stop more bloodshed.

While Australia spends millions of dollars to stop the flow of asylum seeker boats, its efforts are constantly undermined by criminals and corrupt military and government officials. These operators have worked in secret but now Four Corners has caught them on camera.